Job overview
Are you passionate about creating positive change and empowering individuals to achieve a better quality of life?
We’re looking for a dedicated and experienced Recovery Coordinator to join our team. In this role, you’ll deliver a comprehensive Tier 2/3 service, supporting individuals struggling with drug use as well as their families and friends. This position operates within the framework of STaRS (Staffordshire Trent and Recovery System), providing meaningful and impactful support to those in need.
If you’re ready to bring your expertise and commitment to this rewarding opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
1. Provision of drug & alcohol treatment to Service Users within the locality.
2. Holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals.
3. Supporting service users through their treatment journey from beginning to end.
4. Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work.
5. Ensuring that your work is evidence-based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation.
6. Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.
Working for our organisation
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.
We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.
Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:
1. Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections.
2. Be responsible for maintaining a full case load of complex clients as the key worker.
3. To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of Tier 2,3,4 drug services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services.
4. To keep up to date records and information for the purpose of internal and external evaluation.
5. To provide information and statistics consistent with the Drug Action Team (DAT) and Inclusion’s requirements.
6. To participate in regular supervision.
7. To take part in annual appraisal and review based on the NHS knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF).
8. To attend relevant internal and external meetings.
#J-18808-Ljbffr